In case any other GoDaddy customer is wondering, yes your registration does come with name serving for the static IP of your choice. The GoDaddy “free parking” servers, despite their name, can do more than hurl hideous stock photography and Google ads at people hitting your domain before you’ve had a chance to do something with it.

I was fooled by that “parking” name for a solid year, instead using ZoneEdit DNS (which is free but a little shady about how fast and reliable you can expect it to be without paying up), with the long-term plan of spending a weekend setting up my own ridiculous name server. And then this morning the ZoneEdit NSes went down. They’re still down actually. Good stuff. Tell me again why I can’t just tell the Internet that my site is and will always be at 66.114.79.69?

But GoDaddy is a lot less ghetto than they would have you believe. When you register a domain at GoDaddy, leave the parked servers selected and find the “Total DNS Control and MX Records” link. That rabbit hole takes you to a page where you can insert an A record for your static IP… an A record for your static IP … and A record… hey, hey wake up! You’re not dreaming. That’s really all there is to it.

And if we have any more freaking technically.us downtime in December, it is seriously going to ruin Christmas.